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ITT: Writers that killed themselves.
>pic related

>> No.4923334
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>>4923299
Mandatory

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>>4923299
Sylver's buddy Ann, who was quite a bit hotter, imho. Accidental pic related.

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>>4923299
Mandatory

>> No.4923360
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4923360

Yep.

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>>4923299

>> No.4923374

>>4923360
My personal favorite.

>> No.4923376

>>4923345

nah anne sexton isn't hotter/prettier/more attractive than plath, she's just sluttier

>> No.4923378
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>>4923299
Bump because I wanna see if someone talk about Sylvia Plath.
Am hour ago I was listening The Antlers, start chatting people

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>> No.4923384
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>>4923299
daily reminder

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>> No.4923545
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>>4923299
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

>> No.4923553

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/25-famous-writers-who-killed-themselves

Bumping with this. Keep posting with others though please.

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>>4923553
he was also researching a big expose 9/11 before he died and said he'd uncovered horrible things
2spooky

>> No.4923766

>>4923299
yesenin, hart crane, thomas chatterton, mayakovsky, cesare pavese

>> No.4923782

>>4923553
For some reason it just keeps taking me back to the main page. It won't let me go to actual page.

>> No.4923797

>>4923782
My bad, anon.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/25-famous-writers-who-killed-themselves/Slideshow?oid=2058208&slide=1

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>>4923391
Every time

>> No.4923920
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1/4

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2/4

>> No.4923931
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3/4

>> No.4923937
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4/4

>> No.4923939

>>4923937
>There is a tattoo on the right upper arm laterally with word "Karen" and a symbol of the heart.

Wait is this real

>> No.4923944

>>4923937
>There is a tattoo on the right upper arm laterally with word "Karen" and a symbol of the heart
lmao dfw what

>> No.4923945
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4923945

>>4923920
>>4923927
>>4923931
>>4923937
(This looks important. I'll make a note of this and put it in my file.)

>> No.4923948

>>4923939
>>4923944
Idk it's probable, his wife's name is Karen.

>> No.4923950

>>4923939
>>4923944
dfwmind

>> No.4923992

>>4923945

Fucking 5-star post.

>> No.4924116

>>4923360
Didn't his mother get CoD published after his death? That's so horrible.

>> No.4924119

>>4923378
SYLVIA
GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE OVEN
GO BACK TO SCREAMING AND CURSING
REMIND ME AGAIN HOW EVERYONE BETRAYED YOU

Your face is up against mine and i'm too terrified to speak

;_;

>> No.4924122

>>4923583
The fucker would say that right before offing himself though. One final big joke.

>> No.4924132

>>4923920
>4 photographs

We need these four pics of Dave swinging.

>> No.4924172
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Shot himself

>> No.4924185

>>4924116
Why is it horrible?

>> No.4924196

>>4924119

God damnit, Sylvia... why didn't I listen...

>“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

>> No.4924217

>>4924172
>tfw

Really, I'd loved to see him live at least until the late 90s to see his work getting true recognition in revolutionary groups and also, would love to see him write something about taeh internets

>> No.4924230
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>> No.4924249

Virginia Woolf

won't google a pic to post though

>> No.4924358

>>4923920
>all natural teeth

tfw years younger than DFW but already have a crown

>> No.4924371

>>4923927

> prior suicide attempts
> prior

I think that'd be "posterior" or "before"

>> No.4924442

>>4924230
;_;

>> No.4925054

>>4923583

Great artwork

>> No.4925066

>>4924217
didnt his "comments on society of spectacle" cover all this?

>> No.4925114
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This is the garage where DFW an-hero'd

>> No.4925161

>>4924185
Get real, plebtard! Who wouldn't loved to read a sequel about Ignatius and Myrna in New York?

>> No.4925193

>>4925114
Looks like a lovely place to just try your hand at life for another day. Poor walrus.

>> No.4925199

>>4925193
The death report actually hit me pretty hard

Taping his wrists. Damn.

>> No.4925207

>>4925066
Not really, I guess he does point at a democratization of information and can see SI's methods gaining a certain influence among post-left thinkers, but what I REALLY wanted to see are his actual observations concerning the anti-globalization and PGA comments.

>> No.4925213

>>4925207
(I could be wrong though, my actual edition of the book is from before the comments and I've only read the actuall comments year later and only once)

>> No.4925233

>>4923931

>brown underwear

Didn't even know they made brown underwear

>> No.4925256
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Albert Caraco (died by hanging in 1971):

"Nos religions sont les cancers de l'espèce et nous n'en guérirons que morts. Nous mourrons pour que nos religions périssent, la catastrophe engloutira les prêtres avec leurs fidèles. Les restes de l'humanité qui survivront au milieu des ruines, s'acharneront après les pierres subsistantes.
Je ris de voir les nations entretenir et restaurer les édifices, où s'engendra leur mort spirituelle, à l'heure qu'il fallait repenser l'univers ; je ris de voir cent peuples devenir conservateurs de leurs antiquités imaginaires ou réelles, à la merci de la prochaine catastrophe ; je ris de voir disputés au néant les temples dont le néant a la survivance et je professe que tout va mourir, les hommes à l'égal des pierres, les pierres à l'égal des hommes.
Demain, la mort célébrera ses noces avec le chaos et nous ornons déjà leurs tables, c'est pour leur fête que nous besognons. Nos édifices sont les pièces qui figureront au milieu de la chair des peuples immolés, émincés, bouillis et rôtis, dont les entrailles frémiront d'amour devant les bontés de la Providence et qui contempleront, au moment de leur agonie, le vide qu'ils imaginaient divin."

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jean amery
>survives auschwitz
>suicides 30 years later

>> No.4925350

Yesenin had the most interesting way of suicide.

>> No.4925357

No Empedocles, no Seneca?
No Paul Celan?
No Kawabata, no Pavese?
No Gérard de Nerval?
No Chamfort?
No Weininger?
Come on, /lit/.

>> No.4925360

>>4925350
Wrote his friend a poem written in his own blood. The best way for a writer to an hero.

>> No.4925362

>>4925233
Hanging causes your bowels to release

"Brown underwear" is medical speak for "further evidence of hanging being the cause of death"

>> No.4925393

>>4924116

Yes, and she also destroyed his suicide note saying it was a bunch of drivel

>> No.4925407

Anybody here suspect they are depressive?

I'm usually skeptical of those who claim to be depressed, but shit man recently I can't find any other name for what I'm feeling.

It's like a dull ache accompanied by nausea and a weird desire to escape to somewhere that isn't my room

>> No.4925424

>>4925407
That sounds more like anxiety.

>> No.4925436

>>4925233
it wasn't brown when he bought it

>> No.4925448
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Don Carpenter

>> No.4925479

>>4923931
>>4923937
Why did he have duct tape around his wrists? And DFW had a tattoo lmao.

>> No.4925571

>>4925407
I might have anxiety. I'm very self-conscious and I don't like myself. Although it doesn't help the girl I like yesterday told me she thinks of me as a friend.

>> No.4925583

God. Plath had a nice dick sucking face.

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>> No.4925605
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egon friedell's last words:
>watch out, i'm going to jump

>> No.4925621

>>4925479

So he couldn't change his mind and untie himself

>> No.4925635

>>4925605
That's very considerate.

>> No.4925643

What is the point of this thread?

>> No.4925648

>>4925643
I have an "authors who committed suicide" fetish.

>> No.4925701

>>4925360
Do svidanye, moy drug, do svidanye

>> No.4925989

>>4925621
Yikes.

>> No.4925993

>>4925256
*bascule son borsalino*

>> No.4926030
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Jens Bjorneboe

His writing shaped my teenage years

>> No.4926090

>>4925407
That's depression mayne.

>> No.4926345

>>4923384

I saw this thread a while ago and noticed it, then I saw you comment on it in another thread and realised I wasn't crazy.

>> No.4926348

me

bye faggots

>> No.4926424

>>4925320

>holocaust
>happening

more like holohoax

>> No.4926512

>>4926424
How ya doing, /pol/?
Any good happenings recently?

>> No.4926541

50% of Japanese pre-ww2 writers

>> No.4926542

>>4926512

Not really, just chilling...

>> No.4926545

Why do so many writers commit suicide?

>> No.4926568
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>> No.4926578

>>4926545
Writing has been a profession or hobby for over millennia so there are a number of suicides. Retail employees also commit suicide. So do physicists and software engineers.

>> No.4926584

>>4926568
would drink campari with/dix

>> No.4926598

>>4923937
>Frontal balding is present
what a silly reason to kill yourself

>> No.4926611

Mayakovsky

>> No.4926614

>>4926345
They have the same gaze mayne.

>> No.4927359

>>4923939
I'm pretty sure the original was Mary (i.e. Mary Karr) but he had it amended when he got married. This is in Max's biography of DFW.

>> No.4927367

>>4925357
>Seneca

He was forced to kill himself, this is elementary stuff.

>> No.4927396

>>4925233

There needs to be a footnote explaining why, and what brand it was.

>> No.4927439

>>4924116
Why did she publish Call of Duty?

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>> No.4927458

>>4925357
>No Gérard de Nerval
Walking his lobster on a leash.

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>> No.4928090

Do dying in a stupid accident caused by them count a suicide ?

>> No.4928186

>>4928090
no, barthes doesnt count

>> No.4928253

*sigh*

I don't quite get the fascination, nor identification with Plath.

Please, please don't take this as an attack, ye olde subjectivity and all that.

Plath's poetry just doesn't sing to me. Her prose stories though, they hold my attention.

Whereas Sexton - oh yes, oh yes.

I suppose it remains to compare the powers of such draws, of what calls the reader into the twilight that buffers our journey into the endless night, and why we would spare such a glimpse when bidden.

Plath was tragic, though she may draw blood and roll in the sensuous mud for a time, there was always something, something fair, struggling to remain.

Anne Sexton's baggage claim was ashed before the flight, and no remorse remains for what holds back a journey down the road to further damnation.

We all have our favorites.

>> No.4928256

*who killed themselves

>> No.4928267

>>4928256

Who, indeed.

>> No.4928300

>>4928256
whom*

>> No.4928310
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>>4928300

It doesn't matter why, but thank you just the same.

>> No.4928588
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Does this guy count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wills

He liked to write letters, and possibly committed the greatest suicide of all.

>Everything is dull here, but people are kept alive by people getting shot at in the streets.

>> No.4928616

>>4923927
>Duct tape around both wrists
Why?

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>>4928253

>> No.4928667

>>4928616
So he can't "change his mind" when the panic reaction kicks in. How can you not figure this out? You're on a literature board and you're this retarded!

>> No.4928678

>>4928667
I figured as much, but you'd think someone with that foresight and that fear would pick a method more immediate. Why would you choose to spend your last moments in panic and suffering?

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>> No.4928733

how do you even handcuff yourself with tape?

>> No.4928743

>>4928733
With your teeth?

that or he was murdered

>> No.4928981

>>4925635
Agreed.

>> No.4929014
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as i get older i get really excited when i discover masters of some artform who are NOT temperamental nor have hardcore eccentricities. it's rather disgusting to see suicides romanticized in some cases. anyone care to comment on why young adults tend to do this? i know i did it myself for some of my favorite musicians. i don't know. isn't it much harder yet more beautiful to live?

>> No.4929067
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>>4928253
>ye olde subjectivity
>ye olde

You know, that's incorrect. They used a "Y", because they didn't have a type for the german letter "thorn" (pic related). But everyone knew it was pronounced "the". They never wanted it to sound "ye", you fucking shithead.

>> No.4929076

>>4928678
>Why would you choose to spend your last moments in panic and suffering?
To become a 3spooky5me ghost and spook people.

>> No.4929086

>>4929014
You're right. Your post reminded me of Fernando Pessoa, who killed himself slowly drinking hard liquor. And he never bragged about it, not even said a word, not like that dirty faggot Bukowski who made drinking some kind of personal brand.

>captcha: hautysic Acts

>> No.4929091

>>4929067
The more you know.

>> No.4929094

>>4923299
she was a qt
>tfw no sylvia plath gf

>> No.4929095

>>4929014
I see value exiting on your own terms, whatever those may be. For most people it's holding out as long as you can. For some people, it's suicide. Camus dying in a car accident is tragic. HST offing himself wasn't, DFW killing himself when he went off his meds is gray

>> No.4929216

>>4929067
>the olde subjectivity and all that.

I suppose 'the' would need to sound more like 'thee', but I'm OK with either.

>> No.4929275

>>4923299
Édouard Levé

>> No.4929291

>>4929095
i'm sure some people need psych help of some kind. maybe they think death is the only release or something like that. but again another part of me thinks those ideas are fueled by romanticizing death, suicide or artists who have died young for whatever reason. it should be fundamental and natural to want to live but suicide isn't new either. i think a part of why mishima killed himself was he wanted to be immortalized as he was at a specific point in time, rather than grow old and likely less beautiful in his eyes. that's sad and pathetic imo.

“Call it God, call it divine, call it world spirit, you can’t have an aesthetic experience unless you’re in touch with something real about the world that we don’t really understand.”

maybe artists have issues with dealing with this. some to the point where it's detrimental to their psych health. also with depression i've had it bad where i contemplated suicide but never dared to take beyond contemplation. but i was in high school or early college. i'm sure people deal with levels of it i'm not aware of. i feel bad for them and hope they seek help instead of thinking it's great to off oneself for art. there is no greater art than life imo.

>> No.4929316

>>4929275
Oh, and Walter Benjamin, Ernst Toller and Heinrich von Kleist.

>> No.4929319

>>4929291
oops that quote is from a guitar player i really enjoy. not mine.

>> No.4929362

>>4929291
>there is no greater art than life imo.

thinking about it, i imagine it's easier said when you're not the one dealing with it. wish i had a good answer.

>> No.4929391

>>4924371
prior means before.

>> No.4929524

>>4929067
>>4929216

Speaking of which, I think it's time we petition moot for a temporary word filter for shits and giggles.

>> No.4930000

>>4925320
He left a note. He left a simple little note that said "I've gone out the window." This is a major intellectual and he leaves a note that says "I've gone out the window." He's a role-model. You'd think he'd leave a decent note.

>> No.4930063

Is The Bell Jar worth a read or is it just feminist tripe which it has been portrayed to me in the past

>> No.4930109
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>>4929094
She was actually ugly as hell.

>> No.4930237

>>4930109
Nope, she was a cutie. If you listen to her interviews or readings on Youtube, you can hear her horribly affected English accent though.

>> No.4930249

Hegesias

/thread

>> No.4930264

>>4930249
How does that end the thread?

>> No.4930318

>>4923299
Vaginal Wolf

>> No.4930328

>>4926614
They're both fuckable.

>> No.4930335

>>4930264

end with the greeks

>> No.4930379

>>4930237
It was just a mid-atlantic accent. A warped mixture of American and English.

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>> No.4930542

>>4923583
9spooky11me
[/spoiler]yes, I bump the thread just for that joke

>> No.4930656

>>4923583
Yeah, watch out NYT, the guy who wrote Fear and Loathing has a big one on you

>> No.4930670

>>4923937
>the hair is straight
>the ass was fat

>> No.4930679

>>4924371
Brilliant

Also, their application of semicolons is absolutely not Mozart-esque

>> No.4930802

>>4923937
>tfw we never got to see bald DFW

This explains the bandannas a bit more though, ("no guys, I just sweat a lot" kek)

>> No.4931021

>>4927439
kek I thought the same

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>> No.4931029

>>4923937

Was his suicide note ever published?